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exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:22 AM Dec 2020

Horrible thought - Trump might go down in history

as the individual who has won the most total votes when running for President if he is the Republican's candidate in 2024. He is already that right now having 1-2M or so more than Obama.

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Horrible thought - Trump might go down in history (Original Post) exboyfil Dec 2020 OP
The next candidate will win more BainsBane Dec 2020 #1
But over three elections? exboyfil Dec 2020 #7
Who even keeps track of that sort of thing? BainsBane Dec 2020 #8
A: Trump, once someone points it out to him. carpetbagger Dec 2020 #13
? OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2020 #2
???? TigressDem Dec 2020 #3
That's a relatively unimportant statistic canetoad Dec 2020 #4
He won't run in 2024. He will have taken too much of a legal beat down by then. Progressive Jones Dec 2020 #5
He won't run but will say he is for the same reason he did it last time... BigmanPigman Dec 2020 #16
Kinda think the inauguration hoopla should be forsook. SleeplessinSoCal Dec 2020 #6
He's talking about the pop vote total BainsBane Dec 2020 #9
The real horrible thought is that all the extra unnecessary deaths might have been worth it, if brewens Dec 2020 #10
Popular vote since 1900: Make7 Dec 2020 #11
So Dems won all the elections since 1992 BigmanPigman Dec 2020 #17
+1, Plurality of Americans have only wanted kGOP in one election in 2004 and that was with severe uponit7771 Dec 2020 #21
You're Right. Trump Will Go Down In History COL Mustard Dec 2020 #12
And over 6 million behind Joe and Kamala. Sunsky Dec 2020 #14
He'll be just an ugly footnote laurieu Dec 2020 #15
A Democrat won the most votes over . Stop focusing on Trump and Highlight what Democrats have JI7 Dec 2020 #18
No, no, no. Have you ever heard that expression, "Picking gnat shit out of pepper"? Mike 03 Dec 2020 #19
he talks alot of shit. he won't run 2024. KG Dec 2020 #20
Hope not. Maxheader Dec 2020 #22
This message was self-deleted by its author tman Dec 2020 #23
That's it!. No more spicy food for you before bed. JHB Dec 2020 #24

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
7. But over three elections?
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:30 AM
Dec 2020

How many individuals run for President three times - there has only been four from major parties (Roosevelt four times, Nixon, Cleveland, and Jackson).

carpetbagger

(4,384 posts)
13. A: Trump, once someone points it out to him.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 03:07 AM
Dec 2020

...on his Parler feed in 2025 at his condo in that new city they're building in Saudi

canetoad

(17,090 posts)
4. That's a relatively unimportant statistic
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:26 AM
Dec 2020

As the world and US population grows, obviously each subsequent candidate will garner more votes than predecessors. Somewhat mitigated by your (unhelpful) practice of non-compulsory voting, I have no doubt he WILL NOT survive the scrutiny of history.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
5. He won't run in 2024. He will have taken too much of a legal beat down by then.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:27 AM
Dec 2020

Then add in all of the crap we don't know about yet that will be exposed after he leaves office.

He's damaged goods now. It will only get worse for him.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
16. He won't run but will say he is for the same reason he did it last time...
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 03:26 AM
Dec 2020

to get publicity for his "brand". He never wanted the job but he was able to grift off of it big time and he had the whole country's attention on HIM constantly for 4 years, money and ego are what drives him. He'll say he's running and make a ton of money from scamming his cult and he will be in the media non-stop...he's hooked on this now. The court battles ahead will allow him to be in the headlines and he'll hold rallies and charge a fee to attend plus 1,001 other money schemes.

brewens

(13,400 posts)
10. The real horrible thought is that all the extra unnecessary deaths might have been worth it, if
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:35 AM
Dec 2020

that's what it took to take down Trump. Considering what a fascist regime in the United States might have meant world wide. That could have been millions of deaths over time.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
17. So Dems won all the elections since 1992
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 03:33 AM
Dec 2020

except twice, 2000 and 2016. Both times the GOP won without the Popular Vote.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
21. +1, Plurality of Americans have only wanted kGOP in one election in 2004 and that was with severe
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 07:39 AM
Dec 2020

... voter suppression in Ohio to the point Ohio was sued.

Voter suppression changes elections way more than voter fraud

Sunsky

(1,737 posts)
14. And over 6 million behind Joe and Kamala.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 03:23 AM
Dec 2020

That spot will go to Kamala in 2024 since Biden has implied that he won't run again. President/VP, it doesn't matter since we vote for a ticket, not just one person. However, I doubt that Trump will be in any position to run in 2024. Also, Obama is never going to run again, so I don't get the comparison and the leap from Joe and Kamala to Obama.

Go back to bed

JI7

(89,182 posts)
18. A Democrat won the most votes over . Stop focusing on Trump and Highlight what Democrats have
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 04:44 AM
Dec 2020

achieved.

You think they spend their time over how Hillary got millions more votes than Trump ?

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
19. No, no, no. Have you ever heard that expression, "Picking gnat shit out of pepper"?
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 07:05 AM
Dec 2020

He will be remembered as the first U.S. President to attempt an autocratic takeover of our country by breaking the conventions of Democracy from within. And as the leader of the most corrupt administration in our history.

What I hope he's not remembered as is the POTUS who began the process of flipping us from a Democratic Republic to an authoritarian state, meaning a process that hasn't concluded yet.

Because once a country has come this close to the brink, it's not so unimaginable it won't happen again, possibly soon.

Hitler isn't remembered as "the first German Chancellor who liked to paint."

Maxheader

(4,366 posts)
22. Hope not.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 07:47 AM
Dec 2020

But it will be , actually has been used in that context.... will

always be insanely jealous of the left

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